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		<title>Any old fucker with an Equity card</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/11/any-old-fucker-with-an-equity-card/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Thumbcast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting news this morning after Mark Gatiss let slip (sort of) on Graham Norton&#8217;s radio show that he was working on a drama about the origins of Doctor Who. Now this shouldn&#8217;t necessarily come as a shock in itself.  After all, it&#8217;s not that long ago that the BBC screened the magnificent Road to Coronation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256047&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A glimpse of Tomorrow</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Hepburn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[christian tessier]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kristian schmid]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the sarah jane adventures]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With its big name celeb guest stars (hello to Christopher Lee), cliffhanger thrills and alien weirdness, the CITV version of The Tomorrow People is like the Sarah Jane Adventures 15 years too early...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256042&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Space 1999 reboot is in safe hands&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/10/space-1999-reboot-is-in-safe-hands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Thumbcast</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sylvia Anderson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the people that brought you the remake of The Prisoner, and the reboot of V, comes a new reimagining of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson&#8217;s Space: 1999. We can&#8217;t wait&#8230; Filed under: TV<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256037&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bernard Quatermass&#8217; Wonders of the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[david tennant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hammer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if to prove there really are no new ideas in television these days, it turns out that the legendary British horror/sci-fi advenures of Professor Bernard Quatermass are next on the schedule for updating. Nigel Kneale&#8217;s iconic 50/60s/70s scientist has been given a fresh lick of paint before, of course, when BBC Four aired a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256032&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fear of Phanny</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/09/star-wars-phantom-menace-3d-review/</link>
		<comments>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/09/star-wars-phantom-menace-3d-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:16:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Hepburn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Oz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[george lucas]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a collective shrug of apathy when it was announced that The Phantom Menace, and not A New Hope, would be the first of the Star Wars saga to make the transition to the new circular polarized 3D cash cow&#8230;sorry, format. It’s not like The Phantom Menace has a lot going for it anyway [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256025&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The most sensational inspirational celebrational&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/07/the-muppets-2011-revie/</link>
		<comments>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/07/the-muppets-2011-revie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:29:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Hepburn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[amy adams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chris cooper]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s enough slapstick and silliness in The Muppets to keep all but the most junior of cinema goers entertained - ,but this is a film aimed squarely at the  30-something parents who grew up with the Muppets on the small and big screen.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256020&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revealed: The second wave of Before Watchmen books coming this year</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/01/revealed-the-second-wave-of-before-watchmen-books-coming-this-year/</link>
		<comments>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/01/revealed-the-second-wave-of-before-watchmen-books-coming-this-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Thumbcast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Thumbcast exclusive, we can reveal the second wave of Before Watchmen titles coming later this year. Bubastis is a four-part story looking at the origins of Ozymandias&#8217; faithful genetically engineered supercat.  Subtitled The Lynx Effect, it will tell of how Adrian Veidt&#8217;s life was saved from a hoard of rampaging pheromonal women by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256017&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/01/a-bunch-of-mindless-jerks-who-will-be-the-first-against-the-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Thumbcast</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So genre darling and man of a million cult TV roles Mark Sheppard has been announced as the latest name for the BBC&#8217;s official Doctor Who convention later this year.  You know, the one that repeats itself like an unwelcome belch the next day. And this is the quote that the BBC&#8217;s press release ascribes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256013&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make It Blu: The TNG remastered sampler reviewed</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/01/star-trek-tng-blu-ray-review/</link>
		<comments>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/02/01/star-trek-tng-blu-ray-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:43:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Iain Hepburn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brent spiner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can see why you’d want people to have these episodes and not, say, Best of Both Worlds or Yesterday’s Enterprise on the discs. Give away the genuine classics for a bargain price, and there’s no incentive for folk to pony up the £70 a shot for the season box-sets.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256009&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is It The End? &#8211; A One Season Wonder</title>
		<link>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/01/28/is-it-the-end-a-one-season-wonder/</link>
		<comments>http://thethumbcast.com/2012/01/28/is-it-the-end-a-one-season-wonder/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aaron Smithies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is the end. The Thumbcast is about to be consigned to the big dustbin in the sky. We&#8217;ve watched some old TV, had some laughs, bored you to death with odes to long dead TV shows&#8230; I was going to cover &#8216;Is It Bill Bailey?&#8217; for this edition of One Season Wonder but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thethumbcast.com&amp;blog=26389786&amp;post=8988256002&amp;subd=thethumbcastblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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